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Siro said:
You know that average age of Fox News viewers is something like 72, right? Not exactly "the masses". Most people don't follow the news very closely, propaganda or otherwise.
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Not quite. Compared to its rivals? It gathers far more younger views.

n a generally overall down year for the cable news genre, Fox News remained the dominant ratings force in 2014, while CNN made some meaningful demo strides relative to a sagging MSNBC.

Behind the highest-rated programs in cable news -- including "The O'Reilly Factor," which was again top dog among all programs -- Fox News finished on top in both total viewers and the adults 25-54 news demo for a 13th straight year, according to Nielsen's "most current" estimates through Dec. 26.

Fox News was also the only cable newser up in the demo in primetime, as it opened up bigger advantages over the runner-up network in both 25-54 and total viewers.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/fox-news-cable-news-ratings_n_6398220.html

It is the channel for the GOP:

The Fox News audience skews more ideological than that of its two main competitors. Fully, 60% of Fox News viewers describe themselves as conservative, compared with 23% who say they are moderate and 10% who are liberal, according to a 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center. By contrast, the ideological makeup of CNN viewers (32% conservative, 30% moderate, 30% liberal) and MSNBC viewers (32% conservative, 23% moderate, 36% liberal) is far more mixed.
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And it still leads in the "news"

But with 1.7 million viewers each evening, the channel still drew a bigger audience than CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined.
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https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/14/five-facts-about-fox-news/

Scary no?
 
Howard said:
Naw you guys are right, CNN and other mainstream media types aren't provoking people or inciting racial stuff at all. And good job politicizing a tragedy. You guys rock!
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They aren't to the extent of Fox News. Sorry. The truth hurts.
 
The Thriller said:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/fox-news-cable-news-ratings_n_6398220.html

It is the channel for the GOP:



And it still leads in the "news"



https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/14/five-facts-about-fox-news/

Scary no?
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1.7m is miserably tiny. Just because the rest of the trash news channels (all TV news channels apart from Al-Jazeera) do a lot worse doesn't mean people are clamoring to watch Fox News. Given the incredibly old age of the average viewer, it is basically a channel that is made to pander to old conservatives who want to shout at the TV about how Mexicans are destroying America. It is utterly irrelevant. No reason whatsoever to get worked up over it.
 
Here is a Politico article on the age of Fox News viewership. For O'Reilly (their most "influential" host) it's 72. For the whole thing, it's 69. In 10 years, the entire viewership will have literally passed away...

https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/05/may-cable-news-ratings-spare-no-one-189393.html

Edit: BTW, to put the number of viewers into perspective, 25m people watched the the NBA finals per game. A show I've never heard of called What Would you Do pulls 10 times the viewing numbers of Fox News most viewed programs.
 
Howard said:
Naw you guys are right, CNN and other mainstream media types aren't provoking people or inciting racial stuff at all. And good job politicizing a tragedy. You guys rock!
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Lindsey Graham:

"Do you think it's a hate crime or do you think it's more mentally disturbed?" one of the co-hosts asked Graham. "Probably both," he replied. "There are real people out there that are organized to kill people in religion and based on race. This guy is just whacked out... "But it's 2015, there are people out there looking for Christians to kill them," Graham added. "This is a mean time we live in."
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Howard said:
The fact that you think this whole thing is about republican vs democrat is what's scary.
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Who is making this out to be a GOP vs Demo thing?

I am against Fox News and their racist and inflammatory propaganda merely to make an easy buck. It's not doing our society any good. If conservatives identify with that then that's their sad choice.
 
Siro said:
1.7m is miserably tiny. Just because the rest of the trash news channels (all TV news channels apart from Al-Jazeera) do a lot worse doesn't mean people are clamoring to watch Fox News. Given the incredibly old age of the average viewer, it is basically a channel that is made to pander to old conservatives who want to shout at the TV about how Mexicans are destroying America. It is utterly irrelevant. No reason whatsoever to get worked up over it.
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Less than 1% of the pop.

But hey let's keep pretending its significant or that there are not other "news" agencies just as bad on both sides...
 
Howard said:
Is he wrong?
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I would assume he was talking about America so I would say he was intentionally misleading and wrong.

Nothing showing this man targeted them because they were Christian and targeting of people for their Christian faith has not been a problem in the U.S.
 
The Thriller said:
Exactly.

And we would be better off without it.

I really do believe the propaganda on Fox is hindering our progression as a country on various issues.
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That's because you don't understand that media tells their audience what they want to hear and what they already believe. Fox doesn't create people that disagree with you they cater to them.
 
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